Recipe For Flaky Pastry Recipe
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Flaky pastry the quick and easy alternative to puff pastry. This very flaky pastry is best used for sausage rolls, pie crusts and apple turnovers. Here I have used it for an apple pie.
Flaky Pastry
In South Africa, one of the satellite television providers is Multichoice. Their package is called DStv and in 1999 I bought my first decoder for the princely sum of R1999. As with all things electronic, that decoder was phased out, and in order to watch Formula 1 racing I bought a new decoder. With the advent of high definition televisions, we had to get another decoder and so we purchased a SD (Standard Definition) PVR which allowed us to watch 2 separate programs on 2 TV sets, and record a third. This PVR has stood us in good…
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